Private use of social media advice provided to employees
Dear WA Department of the Premier and Cabinet,
This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act.
I request documents related to the ten most recent instances where an employee has sought information, advice, guidance, or opinion on their social media use in a private capacity.
I limit the scope of documents to:
- the original request from the employee
- the agency/department's response
- any follow-up questions and response
- only those sent to a relevant HR / conduct / social media (or similar) team (rather than managers across all areas of the organisation)
- where the original request was created in the last 2 years
Should you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.
Yours faithfully,
James Smith
Dear James,
I refer to your request for documentation relating to social media use in a private capacity.
For an FOI Application to be valid under the WA FOI Act (in accordance with Section 12(1)(a-e)) you are required to give an address in Australia to which notices under this Act can be sent and lodged and provide the applicable $30 application fee.
Your application is currently considered invalid.
Please refer to the Department of the Premier and Cabinet's webpage where you can download our application form and make payment of the application fee electronically (if you wish). The webpage is https://www.dpc.wa.gov.au/AboutTheDepart...
You can contact me on the contact details below if you wish further clarification.
Kind Regards
David Paice
Manager, Freedom of Information
Department of the Premier and Cabinet
Phone (08) 6552 5591 Fax (08) 6552 6730
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Note 1: Mostly I classify a response like this one to say "clarification requested" because the agency has told the applicant that some more information (or money!) is needed before the request will be processed. This time, I have put the response in the category of "refused" because it is more than 1 year since the agency responded and the applicant has not made a follow-up. This does not mean that the agency will refuse the request when an application is made in the correct (required).
Note 2: Although an application under the Freedom of Information Act 1983 of the Commonwealth of Australia does not require an application fee, this is not the case with applications in the states and territories of Australia. Then an applicant must usually pay a fee, or the request is not valid. Also, the Commonwealth agencies might demand payment of a fee to cover extra processing costs. If the fee is not paid, the request will not be processed.
Note 2: It can be a problem when an applicant sends out a very large bulk request. Although it is convenient for the applicant, very often the application will not be valid. This is usually the fact when an applicant uses Right to Know to apply to an agency of a state or territory; see Note 2. When so many responses are received it is inconvenient to work out how to continue ... or even to classify the responses and often an applicant does not classify the responses so they create a backlog of unclassified responses on Right to Know.